Mitchell County Georgia Obituaries Oscar Lee Davis 1954 ****************************************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for FREE access. ****************************************************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Sam Luckey Oct 2002 Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/mitchell.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Obituary of Oscar Lee Davis as written in "The Camilla Enterprise" dated 10 Sep 1954. Funeral services will be held this afternoon, Friday, 10 Sep 1954, at 4:30 PM at the First Baptist Church for Oscar Lee Davis, 62, who died Wednesday, 8 Sep 1954, morning at 11:00 AM at Mitchell County Hospital. He had been in bad health for several years. The pastor, Rev Charles Duncan, assisted by Rev N. H. Williams, will conduct the rites today. Interment will follow in Oakview Cemetery. Pall bearers will include Melvin Jones, Billy Vines, James Lamar Jones, Bennett Jones, Phil Akridge, Leonard Eubanks, Allen Eubanks, Frank Palmer and Ed Palmer. Mr. Davis was born in Sasser, Ga. in Terrell County, 14 Dec 1892, the son of the late J. J. Davis and Fannie Scoggins Davis. He came to Mitchell County when a small boy, his father serving as overseer on the farm of the late Mr. Bori Cochran but was serving as overseer on the E. L. Butler farm at the time of his death. Mr. Davis was a veteran of WWI, serving with the 80th Division and the 6th Division. On 10 Jul 1919, one month after he was released from service, he was married to the former Miss LaVine Palmer who survives him along with their only son, Oscar Leon Davis, one brother, John Davis and one sister.